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Comics Briefly
Politics at SPX; Kids’ Comic-Con 2009; PW The Beat: Google Comic; Otaku Politician; South East Asian Comics; Comics on the iPhone; Final Chapter of A.D.; and PictureBox Back To School Sale
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Zombies, Mayhem and Martial Arts
Last Gasp is publishing Tokyo Zombie, an absurd and grotesque work by manga-ka Yasunaka Hanakuma in the art style of heta uma, which literally means, "bad but good."
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Twisted Classsics: The Work of Posy Simmonds
British cartoonist Posy Simmonds's Tamara Drewe, due out from Houghton Mifflin, is a contemporary graphic novel update of Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel Far From the Madding Crowd
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Nonfiction Reviews
Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley Stephan Faris . Holt , $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8779-6 The latest communiqué from the emerging genre of traveling the world in the footsteps of climate change is an intelligent, nuanced report on the complex relationships between increasingly unstable weather patterns and politics, ...
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Fiction Reviews
Miles from Nowhere Nami Mun . Riverhead , $21.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59448-854-2 Mun's first novel is a 1980s urban odyssey in which Joon-Mee, a 12-year-old Korean-American, leaves her troubled Bronx family for the life of a New York City runaway. The novel follows Joon over six years, as she lives in a homeless shelter, finds work as an underage escort and a streetwalker, succumbs to drug add...
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Welcome to the Zoo Alison Jay . Dial , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3177-6 Working in the burnished, crackle-varnished surfaces that are her signature, Jay (1-2-3: A Child's First Counting Book) takes the idea of a cageless zoo to the extreme, imagining humans and animals mingling with all the privileged coolness of habitués of a five-star resort.
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A Cubano Huck Finn
Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos . Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, $16.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4804-9 Hijuelos, the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, has said that his first YA novel is a novel he wished he'd read as a teen. His themes are classic—alienation, the search for identity—but his approach is pure Hijuelos: Cuban-American, musical an...
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 9/01/2008
In this week's Web Reviews: a fair, sharp-eyed critique of U.S. policy abroad, a smart and angry look at U.S. racism, an examination of the developmental disparity between the U.S. and Latin America, more bad news in the post-Katrina bayous, and the irrational processes of the human mind that may lead the world to ruin. Plus: perfect gifts for new parents, eccentric gourmands and Repo Man fanatics!
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Paul Levitz Talks Digital Comics
DC Comics—with the recent launch of its first motion comic, an animated adaptation of Alan Moore and David Gibbons’s Watchmen available from iTunes, and the one-year anniversary of its Zuda Web comics site approaching —has taken some significant steps into the digital world. So what exactly is DC's philosophy toward digital content? PW Comics Week talked with DC Comics president Paul Levitz to find out.
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Return of the Prince: First Second’s Prince of Persia Graphic Novel
The multimillion-dollar video game franchise, Prince of Persia, is entering a new generation with a forthcoming graphic novel and feature film adaptation.
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Comic Foundry Breaks the Mold
Who knew that when theComic Foundrymade the jump from online to print publication last year, the hip comics quarterly would break the mold of what a print comics consumer magazine should be.
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Comics Briefly
PW the Beat: DC’s Movies; Virgin; Best American Comics 2009; O’Malley, Larson at SPX; New Vampire Hunter D Story; Middaugh on ICv2; Lansdale Writes Crypt Tales; Death Note in Canada; and Quesada On MySpace
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Moresukine: Japan On A Dare
Dirk Schwieger, a German living in Japan, produced a comics blog and offered to take on, and document in comics, any Japanese experience his readers requested him to do.
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Panel Mania: Aya of Yop City
Following their award-winning 2007 graphic novel Aya, author Marguerite Abouet and artist Clement Oubrerie return to the Ivory Coast once again in this 10-page preview from Aya of Yop City. The book will be released by Drawn & Quarterly on Sept. 16th.
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Virgin Comics Shut Down
Virgin Comics, the 2006 international joint venture between Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and the India-based comics publisher Gotham Entertainment, is being shut down.
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Working for the Man
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China Leslie T. Chang . Spiegel & Grau , $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-52017-1 Chang, a former Beijing correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, explores the urban realities and rural roots of a community, until now, as unacknowledged as it is massive—China’s 130 million workers whose exodus from villages to factory and city life...
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Fiction Reviews
The Sweet In-Between Sheri Reynolds . Crown/Shaye Areheart , $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-39389-0 Bestseller Reynolds (The Rapture of Canaan) delivers again with this story of an embattled teenage girl growing up in a Virginia tidewater town. Kendra “Kenny” Lugo has it tough: her mother is dead, her father is in jail, and she is what others might call gender-confused (“the yea...
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books What a Trip! Arthur Yorinks , illus. by Richard Egielski. Scholastic/di Capua , $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-03611-5 Taking a tip from MAD magazine’s fold-ins, longtime collaborators Yorinks and Egielski (Hey, Al; Sid and Sol) create a book with two trick spreads. Their title refers to a boy’s mysterious drop “into another dimension” after tripping on the...
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Nonfiction Reviews
Digging for Dirt: The Life and Death of ODB Jaime Lowe . Faber and Faber , $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-86547-969-2 Ol’ Dirty Bastard was one of the founding members of hip-hop’s Wu-Tang Clan, “the heart and soul of the group” in its early years, although he had embarked on a solo career before he died of an accidental drug overdose.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 8/25/2008
An imperative week in Web Reviews: China, make room for Africa; crossworders, put down your pens; ladies, give up your no-good beaus; families, meet your new meal nanny; and New York City pet-owners, curb your damn dog. Plus: the complete story of the hardest music ever to come out of Visby, Finspäng, Hägersten-Liljeholmen, and many other funny-sounding Swedish places.
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